Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:9:
- Kupsabiny: “It is like that, because if I receive much, I might forget you, and/or if I become poor, I might steal and bring you a bad name.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If I have much, I may forget You and I may say —
"Who is this one who says ‘I am the Lord?’"
or having become very poor I might even eat by stealing
and so discredit the holy name of God.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For if I am rich, I may not acknowledge you (sing.); and if I am poor, I may steal and I may put- you (sing.) -to-shame.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “because if I-have-excess, I might turn-my-back-on you (sing.) and say, ‘Who indeed is Yahweh?’ If I-become-poor also, I will steal and shame you (sing.) who am my God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “because if I become rich,
I might say that I do not know you and that I do not need you;
and if I become poor,
I might dishonor you by stealing things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:8:
- Kupsabiny: “Speak for those who are hated and make true judgments.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Speak out for those
who are unable to speak out.
Do justice for the sake of the helpless.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Depend the rights of the people who are pitiful, who can- not -depend themselves.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It-is-necessary that you (sing.) protect those who are not able-to-stand-up-for their rights.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Speak to defend people who are unable to defend themselves;
speak to encourage others to do what is right for those who are helpless.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 1:9:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to Hosea, ‘Give that child the name Lo-ammi, because you are not my people and I am not your God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD said to Hosea, "Name him Lo-Ammi, because the Israelites are not my people and I am not their God.”” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to Hoseas, ‘Name the child Lo-Ami, for the people of Israel (are) not my people and I (am) not their God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God said, ‘Name (sing.) him Lo-Ammi, because you Israelita are not my people and I am not your God.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh said ‘Give him the name Lo-ammi, which means ‘not my people’, because the people of Israel are no longer my people, and I am not their God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 10:5:
- Kupsabiny: “The people who live in Samaria are afraid/fearful
on account of the idol of a heifer that is in Beth-aven.
The people of that place will be fearful over that idol.
Even the people who burn sacrifices will cry over it
because what they were trusting in will be taken away.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The people who live in Samaria worry about
the calf idol of Beth-aven.
They will mourn for that idol.
and so will its idolatrous priests,
who had rejoiced by reason of its glory,
For that idol has been taken away out of the land.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘The residents of Samaria will-be-afraid because will-disappear the little-gods/false-gods which-(are) heifer cows at Bet Aven. They and their priests who rejoice at the beauty of these little-gods/false-gods will- really -mourn because these will-be-taken-away from them” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Those-from-Samaria are-worried because-of the gold imitation cow that is a false/imitation god in Bet-aven. Its people and priests mourn and cry, because later indeed (predictive formula) its collectively-beautiful decorations will-be-taken-far-away.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “The people who live in Samaria city are worried about what may happen to the idol that resembles a calf that they set up at Beth-Aven town.
The people in Samaria will mourn,
and the priests there will cry about it
if it is damaged or destroyed.
Previously they shouted joyfully
about its being very great;
but now it will not be great any more.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 14:4:
- Kupsabiny: “God says,
‘I will remove the sins of my people
and love them with one stomach.
Never will I be angry with them again.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will forgive my people for their going on the wrong road.
I will love them freely,
From now on I will never be angry with them again. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said, ‘I will-heal my people of their being-a-transgressor, and I will-love them sincerely. For my anger with them has-gone now.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God says, ‘I will heal them in-the-future from their disobedience/obstinacy and I will show my sincere love, because my anger toward them has-been-removed.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh says, ‘If they say that to me, I will forgive them for having turned away from/abandoned me,
and I will love them with all my inner being,
because I will have stopped being angry with them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 2:25:
- Kupsabiny: “God is saying,
I will return to you the food of all the years
that the hordes of locusts have eaten from you.
I will return to you those foods that the locusts ate,
that I sent to you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Whatever amounts of grain the different locusts such as the swarming, the hopping and
the cutting locusts or
the great army which I have sent among you have devoured,
I will repay you for the loss of those years. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD says, ‘I will-restore/[lit. return] what was-ruined/destroyed to you (plur.) during those years when your plants were-attacked by the continuous/successive swarms/[lit. large-groups] of locusts. I (am) the one-who sent to you (plur.) these many locusts who (are) my soldiers.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I will replace what was ruined by the locusts that replaced-one-another who were like my soldiers that I was-sending to your location within (the period of) how-many years.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Yahweh said, ‘I will repay you for everything that was destroyed by those great swarms of locusts
that I sent to attack you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jonah 1:12:
- Kupsabiny: “Then Jonah said, ‘Truly, I know I am the one who caused so that this storm came to you. So, you take me and throw me to this sea. If you do like that, the sea will stabilise/calm down.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Throw me into the ocean, then this storm will stop. I know that you have been caught in this storm because of what I did, he said.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “He answered them, ‘[You (plur.)] pick- me -up and throw- (me) -into the sea, and then the sea will-become-calm and it will- no-longer -trouble you (plur.). For I know that I (am) the reason why this strong storm has-come-upon you (plur.).’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “He said to them, ‘Toss-me into the ocean so-that the typhoon will stop, because I know that I am the reason for this that we are experiencing.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “He replied, ‘Pick me up and throw me into the sea. If you do that, it will become calm. I know that this terrible storm is the result of my not doing what Yahweh told me to do.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jonah 4:7:
- Kupsabiny: “And/But very early in the morning, God pushed/sent a caterpillar/insect to eat (it) until (it) dried.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “But the very next day, at God’s command, it was infested with a worm. Then the pumpkin plant dried up.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But in the following day when it was- just about -dawn God caused- the plant -to-be-eaten by a worm and it withered.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But when it became-light on the next-day (lit. its morning), God commanded a worm/grub/bug to ruin that plant and it withered.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “But before dawn the next day, God sent a worm that chewed the vine, with the result that the vine withered.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
